Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual count there are seven parties with candidates for the Presidency thus far this year: Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Communist, Farmer-Labor, Prohibition, Interracial Independent...
...called Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations was invented, at Rome last week, to explain the resignation of Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi (TIME, July 16) and to forestall the panic which threatened to ensue...
Rumors of Italian panic were whooped up on the hostile Paris Bourse until even in Manhattan, where so many financiers are notoriously pro-Fascist, quotations on the most impeccably secured Italian bonds moved down as much as 1¾ points. As uncertainty grew to fear the Italian lira, which Count Volpi placed on a gold basis cf 5.26? last December, sank abruptly to 5.23½, a low record...
Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
...fiscal collaboration of Benito Mussolini and Giuseppe Volpi is simply at fruitful end. Last week the Count was replaced as Finance Minister by Senator Antonio Mosconi, never before a cabinet minister, but a good Fascist "party...